Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agents and put aboard a plane for Moscow. In their incomplete and faltering English, the refugees assured U.S. immigration officials that they were returning to Communism "voluntarily." For waiting U.S. welfare workers, who had given them a start in a new country, the young Russians had no words to explain their redefection. "There was not a glimmer of recognition," one of the welfare workers said. "One of them turned to look at us, and then all the guards turned to stare at us. After that, they never looked in our direction. We. could hardly believe it when...
Coach Bill Leavitt is at a loss to explain this phenomenon, but he has had no difficulty spotting its effects. "The boys are still learning what its all about," he said yesterday as he came in from a chilly afternoon's workout. "We've had only a few time trials and are just starting to find out what this crew is like...
...invokes the Fifth Amendment, according to Griswold, has come to be regarded by the public as a dangerous "liberal." "I am one who has always felt that there was virtue in the Fifth Amendment and I have made some effort to explain it to my fellow citizens," he added...
What I did and what, no doubt, got me branded or smeared as a "fascist" was (1) I tried to explain and rationalize fascism, which one could not do satisfactorily while denouncing it; (2) I said that fascism, Nazism, Communism and the Roosevelt New Deal in America were all different--in some respects and similar in many others--sectors of a world wide movement or secular trend towards collectivism, a planned economy and some sort of national socialism; (3) I opposed the drive to get America into a war, allegedly against Fascism and Nazism, and on the side of Communism...
...political theorist or a thinker, trying to analyze and interpret a new movement, "ism" or secular trend like Communism, Fascism, Nazism, National Socialism or the New Deal, cannot do a satisfactory job if he has to denounce all the time what he is trying to explain, in order to protect himself against the charge of being a champion of all the evils of what he is writing or talking about. If, in the light of hindsight, I had to do it all over again, I probably would decide not to write and speak about Fascism as I did. I would...